Newton County, AR: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Newton County, AR, Arkansas: 20 ZIP codes scored, Newton County, AR averaging 13/100 (minimal, Newton, AR), from 8 to 20. Newton County, AR is in its peak phase (Newton, AR confidence 22/100): Newton, AR home prices up 2.6% (Newton, AR) over twelve months. Newton County, AR lender headwind: 0/100.

Highest-scoring Newton County, AR ZIPs: 72601 (20/100), 72611 (20/100), 72638 (19/100), 72740 (18/100), 72839 (18/100), 72742 (17/100). Also scored in Newton County, AR: 72852, 72752, 72854, 72856, 72624, 72685, 72628, 72640, 72641, 72648.

Across Newton County, AR's scored ZIPs: median home value $170,979, household income $54,606, 25.1% vacancy, 11.0% poverty, 80% owner-occupied, median age 49.8.

Newton County, AR insurance distress 37/100 (#1,435 in the US); FEMA hazard 72/100 for Newton, AR; 9 federal disaster declarations in Newton County, AR since 2023 (3 flood); Newton, AR construction distress 13/100.

3 banks with 4 branches lend in Newton County, AR; Newton, AR weighted bank stress 46/100, highest 54/100 in Newton, AR.

Newton County, AR unemployment 4.4% (Newton, AR -1.4 pts, six months); 1 new housing units permitted in Newton County, AR over twelve months.

4,099 housing units in Newton County, AR; 841 Newton, AR renter households; 30% of Newton, AR renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 9% (Newton, AR) half or more.

Newton County, AR ranks #2,205 nationally on the opportunity index (Newton, AR, among all ranked counties); Newton, AR scores 27.0/100 and Newton, AR sits #75 inside Arkansas. Newton, AR is in the weak opportunity phase; Newton, AR's primary driver is vacancy, Newton, AR second driver bank institutional; Newton, AR moved up 198 places. 13 short-sale listings across Newton, AR; 30 days on market observed in Newton, AR; 20.0% vacancy over 20 Newton, AR ZIPs.

No CFPB county sample covers Newton County, AR. The non-metro area reading for Newton, AR: 1.5% ninety-plus days late; Newton, AR's thirty-to-eighty-nine share is 3.0% (Newton, AR, December 2025 data); Arkansas overall 1.3%.

Newton County, AR has 3 watched banks; 3 Newton, AR banks sit in an elevated band. Newton, AR footprints: Bank Ozk (2 branches, stress 41) in Newton, AR; Anstaff Bank (1 branch, stress 54) in Newton, AR; Bank Of 1889 (1 branch, stress 47) in Newton, AR.

920 of the 4,099 housing units in Newton, AR sit vacant. Newton County, AR permitted 0 multifamily units in twelve months; Newton, AR's one-to-four unit structures added 1 units in Newton County, AR.